Month: August 2021

Ethreum project is urging developers to apply a hotfix to squash a high-severity vulnerability. The chain-split vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-39137, impacts “Geth,” the official Golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol. […]

Samsung says that it can disable any of its Samsung TV sets remotely using TV Block, a feature built into all television products sold worldwide. […]

The official app for installing SteelSeries devices on Windows 10 can be exploited to obtain administrator rights, a security researcher has found. […]

A PowerShell script used by the Pysa ransomware operation gives us a sneak peek at the types of data they attempt to steal during a cyberattack. […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has shared info about a threat actor known as OnePercent Group that has been actively targeting US organizations since at least November 2020 as a ransomware affiliate. […]

A clever UPS phishing campaign utilized an XSS vulnerability in UPS.com to push fake and malicious ‘Invoice’ Word documents. […]

A Mirai-based botnet now targets a critical vulnerability in the software SDK used by hundreds of thousands of Realtek-based devices, encompassing 200 models from at least 65 vendors, including Asus, Belkin, D-Link, Netgear, Tenda, ZTE, and Zyxel. […]

The saga of what has been dubbed the biggest hack in the world of decentralized finance appears to be over as Poly Network recovered more than $610 million in cryptocurrency assets it lost two weeks ago and the hacker received a $500,000 bounty for returning the money. […]